For the first hour this morning at Chouet landfill Beach I recorded colour ringed gulls at the eye-straining rate of 216 birds per hour! That's just about as fast as I ever get here...and after an hour I was ready for a cup of coffee! Conditions this morning were perfect - a slow rising tide pushing the birds ever closer on the beach, and few dogs passing flushing the gulls. In 90 minutes I recorded just over 100 cr LBBGs (including a Portuguese-ringed bird first seen in Guernsey last year - Blue M:012).
I also recorded 140 Herring Gulls and 14 GBBGs - including three French-ringed birds. All in all a wonderful start to the day!
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| Gulls on Chouet Landfill Beach (c) PKV |
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| LBBG B8N7 (recorded in Portugal this winter) (c) PKV LBBG 3.H5 has never been recorded in winter (over four years since ringing) (c) PKV |
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| LBBG Blue M:012 - ringed Figueira da Foz by Rute Costa (c) PKV |
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| LBBG B0AW6 (c) PKV |
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| LBBG B0AW4 (recorded this winter on autumn passage in Northern Spain by Gilberto Jardon and Oscar Chao, then in Northern Morocco by Peter Rock, Nils Helge-Lorentzen and PKV, and in Portugal on return passage by Tim van Nus and Pedro Moreira) (c) PKV |
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| Gulls on Chouet Landfill Beach (c) PKV |
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